Pfizer boost for vaccination drive Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
The first consignment of Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines consisting of 26,000 doses arrived yesterday in Colombo, giving a further boost to the country’s vaccination drive.
This is the first batch of 800,000 doses to be delivered in the next few weeks. A total of five million vaccines Pfizer financed through the World Bank’s Sri Lanka COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health System Preparedness Project will be supplied by December 2021, the World Bank and the Health Ministry said yesterday. © Akila Jayawardana/NurPhoto Sri Lankan military personnel vaccinate people a dose of the Chinese Sinopharm Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine in Colombo on July 5, 2021 (Photo by Akila Jayawardana/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Blood Donation: A Noble Act
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COVID-19 in Africa: Drop in blood donations threat to maternal health, says WHO
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Cameroon Begs Civilians to Donate Blood on World Blood Donor Day
Voice of America
15 Jun 2021, 06:05 GMT+10
YAOUNDE, CAMEROON - Medical authorities in Cameroon marked World Blood Donor Day on Monday with continued pleas for blood donors, after a dramatic drop in donations over the past year. Donations fell by half in 2020, then by nearly half again so far this year, worsening the country s blood shortage.
Officials in Cameroon point to 32-year-old Alphonse Suh Chia as a good example of a determined, voluntary blood donor.
Chia says he became a blood donor in February, after he watched as a 6-year-old boy died of severe anemia in the Central Hospital in Yaounde. He says the medical staff members on duty told him that the blood bank was dry and there was no one to donate blood to save the child s life.